07 December 2023

When she, very young, got sick and was treated in Havana as a demonstration in a Medicine class, Nieves Atrio knew: she would be a doctor. She was in the 1950s and her father told her that only “elite” young people studied this. On the contrary, her mother collected penny by penny to fulfill her little girl's dream, money that would not have that purpose with the triumph of the Revolution.